The Coast Guard received a report Thursday morning of a suspicious aircraft flying low in the Old Bahama Channel. An ICE aircraft was diverted to locate the aircraft and found a go-fast 25 miles south of Andros Island, Bahamas, headed northwest at 25 miles per hour. The go-fast was tracked continuously by two ICE aircraft, an ICE C-12 aircraft from Homestead Air Marine Branch and an ICE Cheyenne aircraft from Jacksonville, Fla., before an Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter deployed to OPBAT in Georgetown, Bahamas, and carrying Bahamian authorities, intercepted the vessel.

At the same time, a Diligence Over-The-Horizon small boat, after traveling 20 miles, was also able to intercept and stop the go-fast.

Once on the vessel, the Diligence's boarding team found 25 bales of drugs, including 550 pounds of marijuana and 190 pounds of cocaine.

The three men on board the go-fast were taken into custody aboard the Diligence and were transferred to Bahamian authorities in Cat Cay, Bahamas, at 9:15 Friday, along with the vessel and contraband.  The suspicious low-flying aircraft was not relocated.

As a result of subsequent investigation, five more suspects have been arrested in the Bahamas, and a second vessel was seized by OPBAT.

"This is the type of effort that is underway everyday in the Caribbean to keep these dangerous drugs off our streets,"said Capt. Everett Rollins, chief of operations for the Seventh Coast Guard District.